Ohio Supreme Court rejects execution delay request

February 18, 2011 at 1:40p.m.

COLUMBUS (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court has refused to delay the April execution of a man sentenced to die for a fatal jail beating.

Without comment, the court today denied the request for more time filed by the attorney for 48-year-old Clarence Carter of Cincinnati.

The state’s highest court last week set seven execution dates including Carter’s, which is scheduled for April 12.

Defense attorney Linda Prucha argued that she didn’t have enough time to prepare for Carter’s new clemency hearing, set for March 11. She asked that the execution date be delayed at least six months.

Carter was convicted of beating to death fellow inmate Johnny Allen at Hamilton County Jail in 1988.